News from Allerton Methodist Church

Allerton’s Community Play & Learn Hub

In October we were approached by the Bradford Community Play Partnership to ask if they could use the church premises for their Allerton & Lower Grange Community Learning Hub. They had been running this from Ladyhill Park since 1st April but needed somewhere more suitable for the winter months.

Supporting local families and linking with 5 local primary schools, 7 volunteers, including 3 of our own congregation, are working together to provide ‘Bags of Creativity’ during the pandemic.

The group have provided over 5,000 packs to children, signed up over 700 children to a Summer Reading Challenge, engaged with 1,500 children in the Light Project with a physical literacy music lesson in the car park, with pallet Christmas trees, a grotto, forest school activities including making Bird Cake and incorporating:

Exercise
Counting, Measuring, Weighing
Investigating natural materials
Growing Sunflowers
Reading
Music

The Hub will continue until February half term and they are hoping to secure more funding to continue into the summer.

We are really pleased to be able to accommodate the group and are amazed at all the fantastic work they are doing to support families in the Allerton & Lower Grange area.

Action for Children - ‘151 Challenge 2020’

As we have been unable to hold our usual annual events to raise money for Action for Children, we decided to challenge our members to do a sponsored event linked to the 151 years of the charity.

We have raised a total of £1,047.55 as follows:

Adrienne - Walked 151 laps of our local park before her 80th birthday - £465
Margaret - Played 151 hymns on her piano in 2 weeks, despite having arthritic fingers - £130
Abigail - Learnt 151 new pieces on the piano (Abi is aged 13) - £87.55
Ron - Completed 151 crossword puzzles - £70
Claire - Ran 151 km during December £50
Donations - £245

Helen H

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